2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Practical Nursing Major in the Far Western US Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Practical Nursing Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants is the 187th most popular major in the country with 84,274 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, practical nursing and nursing assistants graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,863 and had an average of $15,708 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 9,835 practical nursing and nursing assistants graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,012 and $17,391 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 practical nursing and nursing assistants graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Practical Nursing Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in practical nursing and nursing assistants. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their practical nursing and nursing assistants program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Practical Nursing Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Practical Nursing Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants in the Far Western US Region

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University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

Top 25% overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nevada - Las Vegas. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Practical Nursing Major in the Far Western US Region list. UNLV is a public institution located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants at UNLV

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National University
La Jolla, California

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Practical Nursing Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, National University landed the #1 spot on the list. National University is a fairly large school located in La Jolla, California that handed out 0 bachelors’s practical nursing degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants at National University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.